Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Vagina Card

A quote from McCain campaign spokeswoman Carly Fiorina (the FIRED CEO of Hewlett Packard)...
"Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin."
REALLY, BITCH?
This is not only a blatant (ineffective) pander to dissafected Hillary voters it is also a ridiculous distortion of what is going on.
The fact is the Obama campaign hasn't said anything all that horrible about Sarah Palin other than to lightly point out that she is VASTLY INEXPERIENCED.
Other than that they've been fairly hands off. The media hasn't been overly in attack-mode either although they're doing their usual light-news job with a new figure on the scene.
Honestly there are things the press could be going after with both barrells blazing right now and we'll see if they will in the coming days.
But as for now reporters are in a wait and see mode. There is no mention of gender at all as far as I've seen in ANY criticizm of Palin.
Also let me point out that the McCain camp doesn't have any qualms talking about Obama's experience vs. McCains's when it suits their purposes.
Did they do this because he was black?
Probably not.
Probably they thought it was a winning strategy. Or maybe they even think it's true.
So if Obama or the media go after Palin please don't pull the va-jay-jay card. People in public life get shots taken at them regardless of what is between their legs.
Christ, it's not like Obama said, "Fuck that bitch. She gonna be too emotional to run this bizness, bleeding all over the Oval Office rug once a month and shit.
Anyway there are plenty of Palin things to talk about that have nothing to do with her gender:
1. Troopergate
2. Almost recalled as mayor of her 7,000 person town.
3. Wants to teach creationism.
4. Doesn't believe climate change is man-made.
5. Thinks the Iraq war is a mission from God.
6. Is anti-choice in cases of rape or incest.
7. My 17 year-old whore daughter fucked a hockey-player dueschebag without a rubber-gate.
None of these have anything to do with whether she has an innie or an outie down there.
So Carly, shut the fuck up and go back to screwing up companies. You dumb girl.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Radically Pro-F**king

Wow, the GOP is really progressive.
I mean they nominated a woman! For Vice-President!!! In 2008!
Which is about 24 years after the Democrats did it.
Yawn.
This may be the most cynical VP pick I've ever seen.
I mean what's the strategy here?
Does McCain actually expect to peel off a significant amount of women voters just because he nominated the former runner-up to Ms. Alaska?
Does John McCain really think women are that stupid?
I guess the obvious answer is YES - JOHN MCCAIN REALLY THINKS WOMEN ARE THAT STUPID.
Otherwise you have to wonder why did he pick her? Was Palin truly the best person for the job?
No. Most likely he nominated her because she has a vagina.
And here I thought Republicans were against affirmative action.
I know some of you are thinking this is a ground-breaking pick. This is a chance to "shatter that glass ceiling once and for all!".
But please slow down for a mo and allow me to point out that while Sarah Palin is most certainly a woman (and therefore in my mind has the chance to be the most fuckable Vice-President ever) she is also anti-choice, pro-gun, pro big oil, opposes stem-cell research, wants to teach creationism in schools, tried to ban books at the local library, also has ZERO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTISE and is currently the first term governor of Alaska - a state which has a population smaller than the cast of Lost.
Before that she was the mayor of a town with 7,000 people. There are bigger high schools than that.
All of which brings too mind that watchword of the last month - experience.
After all isn't that why Obama has been painted by McCain as such an overwhelmingly DANGEROUS pick - because he was a first-term Senator with so little "experience"?
I guess that argument is off the table now that John - death is not only knockin' at my door but ringing the Goddamn doorbell - McCain has nominated someone who is younger than Obama and has fewer foreign policy credentials than my left testicle.
In fact Palin has said she's "not that interested" in foreign policy. So that's promising. I'm sure Vladimir Putin is trembling in his boots thinking about going toe to toe with the former runner-up to Ms. Alaska who is "not that interested" in foreign policy.
Great choice, John!
Also Palin said her favorite meal is Moose Stew.
Ew. I take back what I said about her being fuckable.
Alsthough Governor Palin does have 5 kids which means she has definitely been fucked at some point.
So that's at least one thing I have in common with this Republican harpie.
We are both pro-fucking!
Of course Palin is against abortion in all cases INCLUDING RAPE AND INCEST.
So in Sarah Palin's world if you're dad fucks you, then you become pregnant and for some crazy reason want to get an abortion well... you're fucked.
OK I totally take back what I said about being pro-fucking. I am now moderately pro-fucking while Sarah Palin is rabidly pro-fucking in all cases INCLUDING RAPE AND INCEST.
Speaking of which, I'm looking forward to Joe Biden ripping her a new one in the debate.
And then fucking her in it.
Hee hee.
Maybe the runner-up to Ms. Alaska is hoping there's a talent portion to the event.
Hee hee again.
Here's another thought - Sarah Palin - the zero foreign policy experience Vice-Presidential nominee to a 72 year-old four time Melanoma surivor - also has 5 kids, one of whom is a baby.
So there is a very good chance that if she's elected Palin will be changing diapers for two gwumpy widdle boys.By the way if you vote for McCain just because his running mate has a twat you are dumber than a pot of moose stew.
One last observation - Andrea Mitchell's facelift makes her look like the Joker in the 1988 "Batman" movie.


Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Yeah, And?
I just want the conversation to be over with.
If I hear one more reporter let loose a self-congratulatory chuckle right before saying the word "veepstakes", I'm going to microwave a Bible.
It's just an excuse to fill the discussion with idle chatter so they can avoid talking about complicated or uncomfortable things. Things that aren't quite fodder for gossip.
I can tell you in this election people will not be voting based on who the VP is.
If you're thinking about voting for McCain at this point you see the World so differently from a Democratic voter that Obama could probably nominate Rush Limbaugh for Veep and you'd still go the other way.
This is a black and white election in more ways than one.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
This is Probably Bad
From a recent editorial in the Russian newspaper Pravda..."So you have the colossal audacity, Mr. Bush, to “warn” Russia to pull back? As the wanton, perverse war criminal under whose watch the world saw the crime known as “shock and awe” committed, I’d say you were well out of your mind to suggest that Russia should pull back.
What’s a little shock and awe among inferior people we want to rob and destroy, eh?
What do human beings need an infrastructure for?
Why do they need clean water? Why do they need electricity?
What’s a little torture?
What’s a little regime change? Don’t recall when that was a goal of yours?
What’s a little deviant, perverted sexual experimentation and humiliation?
What’s a few secret detention camps?
What’s wrong with destroying an environment for 4 billion years and generations after generations of people? After all, they’re just rag heads, aren’t they Mr. Bush?
Perhaps when Russia even begins to match your tremendous feats of glory can you speak about pulling back you fool of the worst kind."
Yikes. Looks like we have a teensy bit of a stain on our reputation.
I'm sure we can wash it right out with just a few drops of water.

One last thing - God Bless America.
Not this one. The one I read about in books...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Enough Bullshit to Choke a Messiah
"It was like watching pigs roll around in shit and fuck each other happily."My friend Rachel on the Saddleback Summit
Some more thoughts on the recently televised debacle...
1. I'm so sick of arguing about abortion with evangelicals I want to punch a baby.
Abortion is legal, will always be legal and unless you want to take women who get abortions and prosecute them for pre-meditated murder you should shut the fuck up right now.
It's not a life, it's a fucking fetus. You don't have a funeral for a miscarriage.
There, I rest my case.
2. If self-importance caused cancer Rick Warren would have tumors the size of Jesus.
Sort of ironic for a guy who preaches "it's not about you."
Because tonight was clearly about Rick Warren and his fat fucking ego-hole. How else to explain the -dare I say it- "audacity" of his questions?
I didn't mind that he asked the candidates about their faith. Well actually yeah I do but at least that's a legitimate question for a pastor to ask.
But when he starts asking them about what Supreme Court justices they like or don't like he obliterates the wall of separation between church and state to the point where he might as well be an Iranian Imam.
We live in America, not the United States of Jesus. Jesus is not in the constitution, nor in any local or civil codes that I'm aware of.
If you're a pastor keep it to the metaphysical. Asking about the fucking Supreme court is not in your job description and it's inappropriate in the extreme.
Some of the questions were also just plain puerile. At one point he asked, "Does evil exist?". How reductive a query is that? Liker one of the candidates was actually going to say, "No, evil is imaginary. Just like Jesus."
Also why is this event on TV? This should have been a private thing. Putting it on TV is gross and only serves to feed into the self-importance of delusional rapture-believing evangelicals while at the same time marginalizing rational humanists.
In short - it sucks and I'm offended.
Boo-hoo.
3. John McCain comes off really well when he's allowed to regurgitate right-wing talking points without being challenged on their veracity.
For instance he said that we're "winning" the war in Iraq.
Bullshit.
Baghdad has been divided into Shiite and Sunni ghettos. The residents of these hell-holes cannot leave their respective slums without being killed or worse. 12 foot walls separate neighborhoods from each other.
This horrible partitioning is more responsible than any surge for the reduction in violence.
Militias are in control of large parts of the city and the country. The Green Zone is still the only safe place for Americans.
5 years after invading most Iraqis still don't have running water or power for more than a few hours a day. They are wallowing in sewage in the heat of summer.
3 million Iraqis have fled as refugees and are afraid or unable to return to their country.
Many more are homeless. Thousands are dead.
How the fuck are we "winning"?
But alas, this is now the conventional wisdom.
WE ARE WINNING SAYS THE MEDIA AND ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY SHALL BE TORN TO BITS AND SHOVED DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE AT ONCE!
McCain later said he wouldn't have nominated Justices Ginsburg, Souter and Breyer.
But he VOTED FOR ALL OF THEM.
So he is either easily fooled or he gets confused and votes "yes" when he means "no".
Which is worse?
Also McCain said America was "founded on Judeo-Christian principles".
No we fucking weren't. Where in the Bible does it mention freedom of speech or protection from unlawful search and seizure? Where in the New Testament does it talk about the right to own a gun or a free press?
It doesn't and it's bullshit to say the founding fathers were Christians.
Some were, many were NOT. They were deists, atheists and agnostics.
This country was founded on English common law and the philosophy of the Enlightenment that said man is capable of rational self-government.
So for McCain to claim that we we're founded by BIBLE THUMPERS means one of two things: he is either lying through his teeth or incredibly, unforgivably ignorant.
Which is worse?
Saturday, August 16, 2008
SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND PANDER

Questions...
Why is anyone sitting on stage feeding the ego of this mega-church douchebag? Why are the members of his church privy to what amounts to a de facto Presidential debate?
When did red-headed idiot Rick Warren become the spiritual guru for our country? I just about vomited when Obama brought up how Warren sold 25 million books and they both laughed heartily about it.
I get it, Pastor. You're rich as shit. I'm sure Jesus would be really, really proud.
This reminds me of Medieval England when the King had to cultivate relationships with clergy in order to keep the reigns of power.
Why did the Obama campaign even agree to this event in the first place? He doesn't agree with these Jesus-Freaks on most issues and he's not going to convince a huge amount of them to vote for him no matter how hard or how fast he panders.
These people are too close-minded to peel off any # of them high enough to make a difference.
These are not intellectuals. These are believers.
Obama and his "nuanced" positions are lost on people who believe there is a man in the sky watching everything you do and keeping score. These are people who really BELIEVE that someone was dead for 3 days and then - whoop! - magically rose out of the fucking ground and ascended into heaven.
I'm sure they're really ready to think hard and deep about stem-cell research.
I'm watching this debacle and I have to say so far it's disheartening to hear what Obama has to say. He seems unable to say to these people - "Look, you and I are going to disagree on a lot of issues but here is where we can maybe find common ground. If you vote for me great, if no I understand."
Like gay marriage - as a black man Obama should be ashamed to "define" marriage as between a man and a woman. After all it wasn't too long ago that interracial marriage was considered verboten to many Americans. But I guess gay is the new black.
We just legalized gay marriage in California and no one seems to have lost their shit over it. I wish he'd just said, "Marriage is a state issue, not a religious one. Get over it."
But he trotted out that civil union bullshit which is the equivalent of "separate but equal".
Whatever. This event is bullshit even in the basic conception. Why are they talking at a big mega-church on TV?
Is John McCain going to talk at the Atheist's convention? How about the next gathering of the Council for Secular Humanism?
Of course not. Because even though we have SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE apparently the Jesus Freaks are the only one's who matter.
I want to go live in another country now.
By the way, I've seen better, more probing questions asked on Inside the Actor's Studio.
I was waiting for Warren to ask Obama what his favorite sound or noise was.